Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-03-28
THE LIBERAL GOSPEL.
THE ARK THAT WAS BUILT FOR EVERY
LIVING THING
To Shelter Them From the Waters Typical Of Chriss
Gospel, Whih is 10 Shelter ALI Oresds and
Men Aliks-A Warning to Prepare
for the Coming Delage
Special Telegram 10 The Register.

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Special Tslegram to he Regiser.
DEs MONIES, IA, March 27.-The Rev
T. Dewitt Talmage, ID, preached II
this city, this morning, to vast congrega
ton. His text was Genesis vii. /: Come
thou and all thy house into the ark. >
The eloquent preacher said:
We
DO NOT NEED THE BIBLE TO PROVE
the Deluge. The geologist's hammer an
nounoes it. Sea-shells and marine forma'
tions on the top of some of the highest
mountains of the earth prove that at some
time the waters washed over the top of the
Alps and the Andes. In what way the
catastrophe came, We. know not; whether
by the stroke of a comet, or by flashes
of lightning, changing the air into
water. or by stroke of the hand of God,
like the stroke of the AK between the horns
of the OK, the earth staggered. To meet
the catastrophe, God ordered great ship
built. 1t was to be without prov, for II
was to sail TO no shore. 1t was to be with
out helm, for no human hand should guide
it. 1t was a vast structure, probably rs
large rs two or three Cunard steamers. 1t
was the Great Eastern of olden time.
The ship is done. The door is open.
The lizards crawl in. The cattle walk in.
The grasshoppers hop in. Thebirds fly in.
The invitation goes forth to Noah Come
thou and all thy house into the ark. "
lust one human family embark on the
strange voyage, and l hear the door slam
shut. A great storm sweeps along the
hills, and bends the cedars until all the
branches snap in the gale. There is a
moan in the wind like unto the moan of
a diving world. The blackness of the
heavens is shattered by the flare of the
lightnings, that look down into the waters,
and throw ghastliness on the face of the
mountains. How strange it looks! How
suffocating the air seems! The big drops
of rain plash upon the upturned faces of
those who are watching the tempest.
Crash! 90 the rocks in cOnvulsion. Boom!
90 the bursting heavens. The inhabitants
of the earth instead of fleeing to hOusetOp
aud mOuntain-tOp,. rs men have fancled,
sit down in dumb, white horror to die
For when God grinds mountains to pieces,
and let the ocean slip its cable, there is no
place for man to fly 10. See the ark pitch
and tumble in the surf while from its
windows the passengers look out upon the
shipwreck of a race, and the carcasses OF
dead world. Woe to the mountains! Woe
to the sea-
am
NO ALARMIST.
When, on the twentieth of September,
after the wind has for three days been
blowing from the northeast, you prOphesy
that the euuinOctial storm Is coming. you
simply state fact not to be disputed.
Neither am | an alarmist when | say that
storm is coming, compared with which
Noahs deluge was hut an April shower;
and that it is the wisest and safest for you
and for me to get safely housed for etern-
ity. The invitation that went forth to
Noah sounds in our ears: Come thou and
all thy house into the ark"
Well, how did Noah and his family
come into the ark? Did they climb in at
the window, or come down the roof? No;
they went through the door. And Just 50,
if we get into the ark of Gods mercy, 1t
will be through Christ the door. The en-
trance to the ark of old must have been n
verv large entrance. We know that it
was, from the fact that there were monster
animals in the earlier ages; and, in order
to yet them into the ark two and
two, according to the Bible statement,
the door must have been very wide and
very high. So the door into the mercy OF
God is large door. We go in, not two by
two, but by hundreds, and by thousands,
and by millions. Yea all the nations OF
the earth may 20 in, ten millions abreast
The door of the ancient ark was in the
side. So now it is through the side OF
Christ-the pierced side, the widc-Open
side, the heart side-that we enter. Aha!
the Roman soldier, thrustlng his spear into
the Saviours side, expected only to let the
blood out, but he opened the way TO let all
the world in. o, what
A BROAD GOSPEL
to preach! If a man is about to give an
entertainment, he issues one or two hun
dred invitations, carefully put up aud di-
rccted to the particular persons whom he
wishes to entertain. But God, our Father,
makes q banquet, and goes ont TO the front
door of heaven aud stretches out his hands
over land and sea, and, with n voice
that penetrates the HindOO jungle, aud the
Greenland ice castle, aud Brazilian grove,
and English factory, and American home,
cries out, "Come, for all things are now
ready" 1t is a wide door! The old cross
has been taken apart and its two pieces
are stood up for door posts, so far apart
that all the world can come in. Kings
scatter treasures on the days of great Ie-
ioicing. SO Christ, our king, comes and
scatters the Jewels of heaven. Rowland
Hill said he hoped TO get into heaven
through the crevices of the door. But he
was not obliged thus to 90 in. After hav-
ing preached the gospel in Surrey chapel,
going up toward heaven, the gate-keeper
cried: lift up your heads, We everlasting
gates, and let this man come in" The
diving thief went in. Richard Baxter and
Robert Newton went in. Europe, Asia AT
rica. North and South America may yet go
through this wide door without crOwding.
Ho. every one.-all conditions, all ranks,
all people. Luther said that this truth
was worth carrying on ones knees from
Rome to Jerusalem; hut | think it worth
carrying all around the globe, and all
around the heavens, that God 80 loved the
world that He gave His only begottOn Son,
that whOsOever belieyeth in Him should
not perish, hut have everlasting life.
WhosOever will, let him come through the
large door. Archimedes wanted fulcrum
on which TO place his lever, and then he
said that he could move the world. Cal
vary is the fulcrum, and Che cross ol
Christ is the lever; and by that power all
nations shall be lifted.
Further: 1t is door that
SWINGS BOTH WAYS.
I do not know whether the door Of the
ancient ark was lifted, or rolled on hinges
but this door of Christ opens both ways
1t swings out toward all our woes; II
swings in toward the raptures of heaven
1t swings an to let us in; it swings out tC
let our ministering ones come out All art
one in Christ-Christians on earth anC
saints in heaven.
zone army Of the living God
At His command We bow;
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